StatusNet 1.0 is Open For Business (but not yet)

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Fri, 03/04/2011 - 10:35

In March of 2010, StatusNet launched our first-generation software-as-a-service offering, the StatusNet Cloud Service. Our users responded enthusiastically, creating over 45,000 sites in one of the service's three plans – personal, community, and private.

As our software approaches its 1.0 release in early 2011, we will be launching a new SaaS product to go with it. StatusNet OnDemand, focused on businesses and organizations, will make it even easier to create a new enterprise network and connect with colleagues.

We have taken a few steps today to prepare for the StatusNet OnDemand launch.

As of today, we are deferring new signups on the StatusNet Cloud Service. New users are invited to sign up for a sneak-peek invitation to StatusNet OnDemand when we begin its release.
All sites currently on the StatusNet Cloud Service will remain active and supported. If you currently have a personal or community site on the StatusNet cloud, you don't have to worry about moving or changing it.

If you have a private site on the StatusNet cloud, we will invite you to try the new StatusNet OnDemand product at launch time.
We've changed the logo, branding, and navigation on the status.net site to reflect the new theme of the upcoming StatusNet 1.0. (Thanks to our friends at Say Yeah! for such a great new look, and Sammy for synching the software and Web site.)
We've streamlined the more confusing parts of our Web site to make it easier to find out about how the software works and what it does.

Of course, all our software remains 100% Open Source. The section of the site dedicated to managing our software project -- plugin directory, bug tracker, wiki -- remains intact.

And if you're looking for a new personal or community site, you've got a lot of choices. First, you can download the software and install it on your own site or Web hosting. Our friends at GNU Social have a nice personal service at daisycha.in. In addition, hosting services like Dreamhost provide a one-click install.

We think that a more focused SaaS system will make it easier for companies to get on track with StatusNet. And we hope you're as excited as we are with the upcoming changes to the platform.

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Comments

Congrats Statusnet!

by charitha Madusanka - 04/20/2011 - 12:05

All best for statusnet! This great microblogging platform. I love statusnet and I'm really enthusiastic to work on statusnet. well done evan,zach and all statusnet community.

cheers!

1.0 release

by Fernando Negrotto - 04/11/2011 - 19:16

Hey guys,
This is really good stuff. StatusNet's architecture is simple great and very understandable.
Do you have any idea when 1.0 will be release as stable?
Thanks.

Excited :)

by Mangaa - 04/07/2011 - 04:24

I've just downloaded a copy of it, installed on my MAMP... I went WOW! This is exciting! Really exciting. This changes everything :D noticed some features are hidden/not yet released (compared to the .png on the home page) when will things get done? So far, so good! Love you guys!

Release date

by Jeff G - 03/21/2011 - 23:01

Hi,

I noticed there was quite a bit of time between version .9.6 and the current .9.7. I am assuming there will be a .9.8 and .9.9.? I was wondering if 1.0's release will be a matter of weeks or months. :] I'm really excited about it!

The Greek language will be

by υγραεριοκίνηση - 03/18/2011 - 06:01

The Greek language will be supported in the new version? Thank you in advance and keep up the quality services that you provide!

Amazing

by michael - 03/14/2011 - 02:49

Great work guys, I'm really looking forward to the version 1.0 release and can't wait to try out all the new features, and thanks for keeping it open source and free!

Congrats!

by Jaime - 03/10/2011 - 17:33

Hi,
Congrats for the milestone. the site preview is really looking good. (even if the project was good since some time, though) :)

about the group behaviour, one think about it that i would like to share, that dunno if its allready possible, would be the ability of a group sign a rss. beside that, erverything is great! congrats to all the team!

Best regards,

This is great news. Is there

by Botil - 03/06/2011 - 19:49

This is great news.
Is there any link from where I can download nightly built zips or tars of the version 1 to test run on localhost?

Development code

by Evan Prodromou - 03/07/2011 - 13:53

Code for 1.0 is in development right now, and unsupported. If you'd like to take a look, please try http://gitorious.org/statusnet/ .

new Features of 1.0

by Thilo - 03/06/2011 - 16:51

I love this great project - thanks a lot.
Now of course I would be interested to find out what kind of new features you will put into 1.0.
Also I have an idea for a feature which would be very useful:
If you could generate private groups, so that you can invite some friends only, you could control the content to post much better - like this:
Content posted publically
Content posted only to a public group
Content posted to only a private group of which you control the members.

This way you can choose to whom you share what.

Private group

by Evan Prodromou - 03/07/2011 - 14:46

We're dealing with private groups a little differently in StatusNet.

You can send a private message to any group.

Any member of that group can read the private messages (and everyone gets notified).

Finally, you can configure a group so that it can only receive private messages. Any public messages to that group will be converted to private messages before saving. This is a lot like some other platforms' "private groups".